Ottawa commits $321 million for residential school survivors and communities

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Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the government will spend $107 million on programs to provide essential mental health, culture and emotional…

Speaking to a virtual news conference today, he says Canada currently does not have the necessary legal tools needed to deal with the complex issues presented by the findings of unmarked graves.

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the government will spend $107 million on programs to provide essential mental health, culture and emotional services to support healing from intergenerational trauma. He says the new monument will be a commemorative space where Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can gather to “express their collective grief and find a way forward to heal together.”

Mi’kmaq girls in sewing class at the Roman Catholic-run Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Shubenacadie.Cowessess First Nation earlier said that ground-penetrating radar detected 751 unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Residential School east of Regina, Sask., a few weeks after the finding of what are believed to be the remains of 215 children in Kamloops, B.C.Article content

 

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